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18 mai 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pacific.998
- isbn: 9782956398196
- eisbn: 9782491338022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Anton Ploeg, « Chapter 1. Me », pacific-credo Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.pacific.998
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1. Introduction Groups of Me were first contacted fleetingly in the mid-1930s by overland expeditions, but colonial interest increased sharply when Frits Wissel noticed from the air the three lakes, which were first called after him, and the dense population in the surrounding areas. From first contact onwards, the way of life of the Me intrigued Europeans. Their dense population, their sophisticated agriculture, their preoccupation with cowry shells that they had graded and used as a currenc...